Want to automatically advance the slides during your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016? You can using these steps.
- Open the presentation file you wish to automate, then select “Home“
- Select anywhere in the left “Slides” pane.
- Select the individual slide you would like to advance automatically. If you want to advance all of the slides for the same amount of time, select one slide in the left pane, then press “Ctrl” + “A” to highlight all slides.
- Select the “Transitions” tab.
- In the “Advance Slide” area, check the “After” check box, then set the amount of time that should elapse before PowerPoint advances to the next slide.
Now your slides should change to the next one automatically. You can test the functionality by going to “View” > “Reading View“
Mary Pat Hinton says
I am doing a memorized presentation at a conference tomorrow where the slides auto progress every 15 seconds. I have JUST REALIZED that 15 seconds in PowerPoint time is NOT 15 seconds on a stopwatch. There is a lag of one to 5 seconds. This is a serious issue and I have no idea how to deal with it.
All suggestions are welcome.
Riley says
I get how to do it and all but when I go to the transitions slide the “advance slides” isn’t an option. Where did it go? And how do I get it back?
Joy says
Try going to the animation pane and select “With” rather than “on click”.
Then, when the animation indicator pops up in a new box to the right of the slide with the video, double click on it.
A box will appear on your screen. There are two choices in the box: “Effect” and “Timing”.
Select “Timing” and then select the “Triggers” dropdown box.
Select “Animate as part of the Click Sequence.”
Hope that helps.
Frank Furr says
The autoadvance works fine with regular powerpoint slides BUT I can not get it to work if I have a video on a slide. ANY HELP?
Joy says
Yes, I have not found a solution.
Stein says
I have the same problem as Joy. In older PP 2007 this works well with Slides and mp3 files. I’ve got the problem after some months with office 2016 and Windows 10..
My pc is cleaned up and have good quality.
Have you still the problem Joy…?
Mozelle Yawn says
I am using Powerpoint 2016. I have one slide that has a youtube embedded. (It is 25 minutes long). I have tried numerous things to make it move to the next slide after the video is over. In my testing, I find that if I set the transition time to 2 minutes it works and goes to my next slide. But if I set it for 23 minutes, it skips the next slide (which is the last) and takes me to the first slide.
Is there maybe a limit to how long you can make the transition time?
Joy says
No apps are running in the background. The RAM is 6 GB, whereas my old laptop only had 4 gigs.
Mitch Bartlett says
RAM would be an issue. Also if you have a lot of applications running in the background, it would slow you down.
Joy says
I googled how to check the speed. All the numbers listed next to PROCESSOR are larger in the new laptop (with 2016 PowerPoint) than the numbers listed on my old laptop. Seems like the speed would be adequate.
Joy says
I don’t know what a WAV file is, but I don’t think the audio file is too large. It’s just a song from my iTunes, and the same PowerPoint document plays fine on other computers. I have also transferred some other similar documents from another laptop, and I have the same issue with them on the 2016 version of PowerPoint.
Perhaps the speed of the computer is a problem. How would I check on that?
Mitch Bartlett says
Could it be possible that the audio files are too large in size? Make sure you are using MP3 format or something small. Not WAV files. Also it could be the speed of your computer.
Joy says
After using 2007 PowerPoint for several years, I have switched to 2016 PowerPoint. I created slides with song lyrics and attached an audio file. I rehearsed the timings, and the music plays fine. The times vary for each slide. The slides are advancing but at a slower pace than what I set. So the lyric slides keep getting farther behind as the slides advance. What is causing this delay?
Buck Field says
Nice feature. Any ideas on how to reproduce 2010 functionality if we only want the slide to auto-advance after the appropriate mouse clicks within that slide?